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Study finds hands-free just as distracting as handheld mobile phone use behind the wheel

Green Car Congress

Talking hands-free on a mobile phone while driving is just as distracting as a conversation using a hand-held phone, according to a recent study by researchers at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Australia. The study is published in Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies.

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The Unsung Inventor Who Chased the LED Rainbow

Cars That Think

This article was first published as “M. the John Bardeen professor of electrical and computer engineering and physics at the University of Illinois, Urbana , and the creator of the first LEDs. Craford met him at a seminar, where Holonyak was ex­plaining his work in LEDs. Appearances are deceiving. George Craford.”

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China bets on open-source chips as US export controls mount – ET Auto

Baua Electric

‘TRUE RISE TO POWER’ RISC-V technology emerged last decade from labs at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2019, researchers at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China organised a seminar on how RISC-V could help China achieve tech self-sufficiency.

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